Uzbek president instructs to modernize country’s energy system
By Trend
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting Oct. 3 devoted to the analysis of the state of affairs in the electric power industry, as well as defining additional measures for the industry’s development, Uzbek media reported.
“The electric power industry is a locomotive of the economy, it is impossible to imagine socioeconomic development and our life as a whole without it,” said Shavkat Mirziyoyev. “In our country there are capacities for generating a total of 14,000 megawatts of energy, 86 percent of which accounts for thermal power plants.”
However, 84 percent of the capacities of thermal power plants were commissioned almost half a century ago, and the existing capacities are used only by 83 percent. If in developed countries, 240-260 grams of fuel is consumed to produce 1 kilowatt of energy, fuel is consumed twice as much at some power plants in Uzbekistan.